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Good Morning Laci! You're either up very early or very late -- I agree about the quality of news coverage; I try to spread my news 'consumption' around a bit, some Europe and the UK, some from Canada, some from the U.S., and occasionally some from misc. other sources, like Al Jazeera English or news sources from India or other Asian sources.

The U.S. media (especially the right wing media) is both consistently more superficial in much of the news analysis, and tend to be less into fact checking and more into echo-chamber repeating the same thing over and over quoting each other instead of doing original work.

Of course this is because the money is hermorrhaging out of news sources, especially independent sources, that used to pay for reporting; it isn't cheap -- but it is essential to a functioning democracy. If we don't have that, we function less and less well (which explains something significant about our current governmental problems).